Re:this whole debate is powered by FUD (Score 1)

I'd call you a sane man. The starter of the thread is obviously not quite so sane. Pitching the discussion as something Bushish is the first clue. You can bet that any administration would have asked for the same sort of look at the situation, but giving it as "Bush Administration officials" just taints the discussion which is already tainted enough by the gun-meme. The story, if you read it, states that the report was prepared at the behest of Bush and you can bet that career Washington types (Not Bushites) looked at it and prepared the report at the request of the president. This would be the same in any administration and the results would have been the same. The article states: "It calls for new federal guidelines to clarify how information can be shared legally under federal privacy laws, and for the Department of Homeland Security to finance joint training exercises among state, local, and campus law enforcement agencies." It seems to me that a little more clarity is exactly what's called for in this situation. It doesn't call, from what I read, for NEW and more restrictive laws, but for a process to be initiated and for some sort of co-ordination to take place. This constant paranoid glancing over the shoulder to see what the evil Boosh is doing to "liberties" is almost as tedious as casting every action by the government as somehow snatching liberty away.